skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. I remember the phrase “learning how to think” being thrown around.

I also remember not being explicitly taught that.

It sort of seems like trying to find enlightenment by chopping wood and carrying water at a monastery.

If critical thinking is something that spontaneously emerges in a learning environment, maybe we shouldn’t sell it as a benefit. “Some students experience deep insight into the nature of the mind. Results not typical.”
China beat itself. By 2100 there will be only 750 billion Chinese people.

That's an irreversible problem that means we are essentially seeing peak China now.

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-demographics-challenges/
Imagine being part of a management that thinks when your workers lie on paperwork that excuses you.
> I won't mention the body text and the subject

Why?
> This could be an extension of Twitters behavior, to link your analysis directly into other peoples document.. And we all know what great social collaboration happens on Twitter ..

Surely you're not going to leave us hanging like this, are you? What will happen with a Project Xanadu?
I feel like the US left itself exposed to this kind of crap by not including taxes on advertised prices. I know the logic behind it (so you know how much tax you’re paying) but the reality is that it’s just irritating and established in people’s heads that you’re never going to pay the price you see on the label.

Having grown up in Europe where tax is included on the label I still knew I was paying VAT and I knew the percentage amount of it, everyone did. If I picked up a €5 item and was charged anything other than €5 at the checkout I’d know something fishy was going on. But in the US it’s always been easy to tack on a little 20c fee here, a 50c one there… this is just the inevitable escalation where apps like Uber Eats bundle together $12 of “taxes and fees” to mask their obscene cut.
The BBC version was a small square of "static" broadcast in the corner of the closing credits of the Micro Show and you put and square plastic box (you could get from the show, I can't remember if you had to pay for them or not) with a light sensor over that "static" square and run the special software which take the data and save it as a file.

It wasn't terribly reliable but it was an interesting experiment by the BBC.
>Interesting, did not know these things could be used to make assessments, judgments, categorizations, etc.

Yep. For instance in this paper[1] they asked an LLM a bunch of political questions to figure out what its political alignment is.

[1] "Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations" https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e4f69aacd8c0905030172bc6eb480c...
While the article does a good job of listing examples where such fees are added on, it does a fairly poor job in contextualizing this. Reflecting on personal experience, of course additional fees are getting worse, more pervasive, and more expensive. But the headline implies a trend while the article only provides recent examples without historical comparisons.

For me the most annoying examples are with flights aggregators who more often than not do a shameless bait and switch. Advertise the price as X, but once the checkout process begins it's actually much more.
USB-C charging still works with the Pros (driving a M3 Max), and 3 ports seems reasonable to me.
It's a Boeing 767 - which has been in production for over 40 years.

A quick search doesn't pull up any coverage of when the 767 in this incident was manufactured.

If "very recently", then Boeing looks like crap

If "longer ago", then the fault is far more likely to be with some FedEx mechanic, or subcontracted aircraft maintenance firm.
The h100 is $80k.
Yes, I'm aware, but you know what I mean. Trees don't have to file for a permit before they germinate. The vast majority of trees are not planted by humans.
Why? Alignment causes some low–order bits to be zero. Shifting the pointer to the right drops those zeros on the floor, leaving high–order bits zero (or sign extended or whatever). Then you can put your tag up there instead. Shifting the value left by the same amount drops the tag and recovers the same pointer for use.
there was some old commercial that had the tagline "performance is nothing without control". If you can't put the technology to work on your problems then the technology, no matter how incredible, is worthless to you.
$331,381.55 in 2024 dollars. If only he'd invested it in the stock market rather than half-assed ponzi schemes he could have been reasonably comfortable.
Does anyone have examples of larger companies making "engineering centers" work?

It appears every time a large company opens in a country outside of say the top 10% by GDP it ends up being a failure though it takes forever to happen because nobody wants to take the blame for their implementation blunder. Seen too many executives in the past continue to say how much it is a success and then it comes to light how much of an issue it caused.

Seems to be the story of every company that opens up purely for cost savings.
Somehow it is kind of tragedy of this industry, the amount of zig-zag it does between ideas and technologies, until mainstream finally adopts concepts that were already available during its genesis to a iluminated few.
I could be wrong, but I think thats what the RHEL AI, topic was all about 24 hours ago ?
It is hilarious how much effort some poeple will go to to make money through scams when they could spend the effort doing something sustainable. Or at least once you get away with one scam, use it for actual business, don't blow it on testing your luck again and again!
The std::is_trivially_copyable type-trait can be used to determine if a type is trivially copyable. It's been in the standard since C++11. I imagine an implementation of std::vector could make use of it to determine if it's safe to use realloc.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/is_trivially_copyabl...
Problem: Learning many tools takes a lot of time and effort.

Solution: Nah, just learn them it's easy, see it as an investment
I sincerely hope your experience is different from mine.

My experience was, "overpriced garbage".
Where’d you end up moving to, out of curiosity? I’ve kind of been in the same boat.
At least as far as I see around me, people who do this, like a todo list, keep adding new tools and wondering if they shouldn't use that one instead the one they chose before. Depending what field you work in, this is quite annoying because on reddit/X someone will come with something you 'really need to try' and that doesn't add to the bottom line of my business. A bit is nice, but people who try 'everything' are not really productive in my view.

For hobby things it might be fine of course.
Kay Li, Co-Founder and CEO of SiLogy, on the Microarch Club
Would there be all this Sturm und Drang if the LLM models generated from stack overflow (and other) content were considered a social good and available at no cost? Or perhaps the turmoil comes from the fact that somebody else is making profits with no oversight, and it's not really about the LLM mechanism and toolchain itself.
The ocean of concrete around a typical suburban office building is very expensive to remediate. Downtown buildings often have integrated parking garages which create substantial expense when converting to residential. Also, family residences may actually increase parking demands in downtown properties (i.e. walk/train/etc to work means less demand for spaces then when 2 car families move in). If converting to residential was doable outside of extremely low value/tax incentive properties, every REIT would be converting their poor performing commercial holdings... It's just not simple, easy or rewarding right now.
OLE as implemented in compound documents might have been a nightmare, but later generations of COM weren't half bad and led to the arguably very nice .Net platform.
They'd be slightly cheaper and wildly more dangerous.

But given the demand inelasticity for housing, it's not even guaranteed it would be cheaper.
Those benchmarks were debunked, they don't represent anything.
>One of the reasons why the Lisp machines died out is that round about the mid-80s or so, compiler technology improved for generic 32-bit processors, and it became possible to run Lisp software on a VAX, 68k, or RISC CPU faster than it ran on the Lisp machines' bespoke architecture.

I'd say Lisp machines died out because Lisp died out (commercially). Other languages got popular, the second AI winter didn't help at all either.

If Lisp itself had fared better (even if it was on generic hardware), Lisp machines could have been saved too, they could still use a VAX, 68k, or RISC CPU underneath, and optimize for the developer experience. Or they'd have turned Lisp machines from hardware into a "Lisp machine" OS or IDE/REPL/etc environment for other OSes succeeding. But none of that took off.
find a good independent bookstore. recommending books is one of their greatest strengths.
I'm wondering if dude is still clearing $250k/month with that police scanner app.

He reminds me of this user on /r/fatFIRE (a variant of this movement many of us here would better identify with) named /u/rajuapps who claims to have achieved $100M in net worth by starting with pumping out apps on the App Store. I believe it; I really like his Tesla Remote app!

Many folks struck serious gold in the early days of App Stores; I wish I tried my hand at it. (I was trying my hand at building a "things to do" startup during this time; didn't pan out, but I learned a lot.)

Anyway; honestly, I feel unbelievably lucky to work jobs that I really like AND have the flexibility to change jobs when I start to dislike it.

It's no surprise that FIRE is so popular. So many people work jobs that suck. SO. MANY. PEOPLE.

Many people also have no idea what they want to do when they "grow up."

Saving enough money to figure that question out OR to take a break from the grind until they're ready to do what they really want to do is a fantastic goal.
Delta’s flight attendants (and a few other groups) aren’t in a union.

This has left Delta very motivated to make sure their flight attendants are happy so that they won’t unionise.

The end result is better workers, happier customers, and more productive workplace. But this wouldn’t happen without the threat of unionising hanging over Delta’s head.

I personally think a good outcome in situations like Apple is having maybe half their stores union, half not - Apple would be very motivated to keep the non-union employees happy. Customers could end up seeing which stores work better. A competitive marketplace, if you will.
I think mostly because they think it's potentially detrimental. And the financial consequences of doing illegal things to fight unions are substantially lower than their perception of what unions might cost them.

Like from this article..."The board cannot impose fines or direct punishments against Apple for its violations".
>>Better buy it now while the price is > $60k

Fixed it for you. It's up thousands time since HN discovered it few times.
And now Boeing is back to blaming lower level staff again, as if circumventing the process isn't a management problem.

Keep in mind that this is a company that has had a ridiculous number of massive safety failures for air travel just this year alone [0].

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/list-2024-boeing-plane-incidents-af...
That's not universally true in Europe.

One of the upsides of doing a startup in parts of Eastern Europe, for example, is the ability to self-fund even for normal people. Cost-of-living is ultralow, since medicine is free, housing is cheap and available (at least outside of major cities), public transit is cheap and works, education works without private schools / tutoring, etc. Basically, $10k / year gets you the good life. And if you screw up, the safety net means there's not too far to fall; you land on your feet and try again.

That's a very favorable climate to bootstrap a business in.

You do see a lot of entrepreneurship from there of that type. It's not US-style big tech, but it works well. Your odds of building Google are low, but your odds of building a self-sustaining small-to-midsize business which you own are quite reasonable. The latter of those is likely a better thing to aim for.

If your goal is to raise $100M, give up 98% of equity to investors, and have the business explode or implode, Silicon Valley is the place to do it. Not everyone wants to get on that ride, though.
Standing on anyone's neck, while searching their car without a warrant or probable cause is a problem, for everyone.
I'm not even sure why I have to clarify this, but ok!
True, but don’t forget that one of the _other_ causes of performance problems in lisp programs is the creation and subsequent collection of garbage. If you know ahead of time which of your data needs to be accessed or created by the most performance–sensitive parts of your program, then you can put that data into vectors to start with and avoid all of the extra work.
I’d definitely like to get needle into rebar (or a branch of it) and be able to run a broader set of comparisons.

Also, I’ve learned a lot from your code. A lot of this project was stubbornly banging my head against the problem, but whenever I wanted to see how another engine did things, your library was the one I looked at.
It is such a flat road and relatively straight. There are lots, but ultimately limited use cases, compared to where busy roads go out there in the real world.

I also think every one of those workers under that bridge should be wearing some type of respiratory filter for their long term health.
These sorts of critiques are a red-flag because that is rarely ever the case.
None of the bits in the pointer have been "stolen" though, which is the point of the referenced article, they are all still available to access the full address space of the CPU.
Amazon breaks into Europe 5G networks with Telefonica cloud deal
It's just amazing that this kind of nonsense persists. There were no significant benchmarks, "scientific" or otherwise, at the time or since showing that kind of behavior. The G4 was a dud. Apple rushed out some apples/oranges comparisons at launch (the one you link appears to be the bit where they compared a SIMD-optimized tool on PPC to generic compiled C on x86, though I'm too lazy to try to dig out the specifics from stale links), and the reality distortion field did the rest.
There are lots of roles at big companies that don't involve actually writing code. The bigger the company, the more communication and organizational overhead there is, and the more not-actually-coding work there is. Even within roles that have a "software engineering" title.

Hell, I barely touch any code in my current company. The only reason I can still code is because I love it, started programming at about 11 years old, and still do it in my spare time. If it was "just a job" for me, then no doubt the skill would atrophy.
F-Secure created USB Armory firmware in Go instead of Rust, exactly because they wanted to make the point of it being a possible scenario for Go, regardless of what the interwebs think about the idea.

USB Armory is still being sold.
The effectiveness of the state’s enforcement is orthogonal to whether you believe it is their responsibility.

Do you believe that the state should be trying to enforce justice for rape, or do you think it should be the responsibility of a “self-organizing” posse?

If we agree that it is the state’s responsibility, then we can talk about ways to improve it. But then, you are already not an anarchist.
It's a glorified video listing app. Any designer could do that handful of pages and interaction with eyes close (and do them better, judging of the state of both the desktop web and mobile version).
Exactly, we can't speculate on what they did in their 20s. All we can do is go from what they said, which was basically "We can't justify moving because we'd have to get a mortgage at a much higher rate". I don't think that's uncommon. I have plenty of friends that bought with 2% interest rates, and they wouldn't be able to afford the places they got with 7% rates. It's also not uncommon for people to be in their 40s and 50s without owning a place in NYC, I have plenty of friends also in that boat.

And yeah I've been in BK for almost 20 years now, I remember hanging out in Williamsburg in 2000 when I was in college, it wasn't that bad. I actually prefer the old version of it to what it is now. Sure, it wasn't the Los Sures of the 80s by the time I got here, but it was a lot more fun. I only had my life threatened once and we deescalated quickly!
OLEs were a phisher's dream
I was around, and seeing what others did with HyperCard - in specific, my Hebrew teacher, because MacOS could do Hebrew - the thing that is lost is low friction between creation and execution. I sort of feel some of that with SwiftUI and Compose now, as long as we don't bulk the apps up with too much architecture. What they lack, though, is true drag and drop UI with arbitrary locations. It's easier to make apps for those platforms, but HyperCard felt like it could make /anything/. I mean, Myst was a HyperCard stack, so maybe it could make anything.
My friend’s brother was in the pipefitter’s union. Those guys worked so hard, I don’t think I would have lasted a week on the jobsite. He eventually quit after saving enough money because of the long hours and hard physical work.

He did get paid very well, got good overtime for those long hours, and safety came first. The benefits of a union.

It may be better to say “Unions cover workers whom management accuses of being slackers.” In my experience, the worst “slackers” are often in management (my view on this is from when I was in management myself).
From my experience around the US it's not only taxes, it is taxes, "service fees", tipping, some other junk fee with another name that is not "service fee", so on and so forth. You check out from a hotel not knowing what kind of fee they will be adding, you go into a restaurant not knowing how much the food will actually cost. Figures for prices don't mean anything until you are on the process of paying and figure out all the extras that will be added after the fact. Worse as a non-local since you aren't accustomed to all the ways a service can charge you extras to be prepared for it.

It's absolutely irritating, almost everything feels like a bait and switch.
I don’t think so personally. The Wii U was extremely cool. The tablet controller was an awesome trick but it was a very non traditional trick that wasn’t going to work with typical games.

NintendoLand, the free game that came with it, was really good. The pitch that I got was effectively “asymmetric local multiplayer with no screen sniping”. Which is conceptually a really interesting idea that was very fun in nintendoland. But… it’s not a vision that supports a successful mainline product.
Because the police union covers for cops that break the law.
StoryDiffusion
It's like the author's intent was to distill and exposit absolutely everything wrong with the current state of this industry (on both sides) compared to ten years ago.
Ant Game Engine
This article is pinpoint accurate. I was enamoured with Gutenberg at first and the idea of my clients being able to edit their site themselves but it turns out they almost never do and the problems outweigh the benefits.

I still think WordPress is a fantastic CMS for simple projects and I don't intend to replace it but I'm definitely going back to the classic editor + ACF flexible contents.
You can likely buy a new one on amazon for less than an old one on ebay.
There was a game on Shakin' Stevens' album where you had to hide from bats and open green doors, and even the prawn cracker like snack Skips had a game, colin the biker. Mad times.
2D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fields
DeepMind: Learning Robot Soccer from Egocentric Vision
Also in East Germany, initiated by Prof. Horst Voelz (who was kind of a computer celebrity back then, basically the East German Konrad Zuse or Alan Turing).

Interestingly there was a cooperation with computer enthusiasts from the Netherlands which led to the adaption of the Dutch BASICODE standard in East Germany.

Also see (apologies for German link, but I guess machine translation will work well):

https://web.archive.org/web/20181107231024/http://r-h-voelz....
The hypothetical housing is doing great!
It can even be helped to be faster with AOT/PGO, or JIT caches.

And while Android ART technically isn't Java (the plaform), its mixed execution mode with hand written Assembly interpreter, JIT, AOT with PGO shared via play store is quite cool.
"Labor" isn't being used in the sense of just "someone who does work". It's being used in the sense of one of the sides in class warfare. Police generally work on the side of management rather than the side of labor therefore they aren't labor in the sense being spoken about.

Note that solidarity is an important principle in the labor movement. So the fact that police the police might act as "labor" in their personal negotiations with management isn't considered to make them part of "labor" in the general sense; because they don't show solidarity with other unions.

Think of it in terms of regular warfare. Just because two nations separately fight the same country in different wars doesn't make them allies. They are only allies if they support each other in wars against that other country.
Regulatory capture and non-existant enforcement mechanisms would beg to differ.

It seems more and more that the US is waiting for the general public to commit egregious acts and then will crack down and that this is the ONLY function of the US government at all levels.
According to the comments, they took delivery of it in 2014... it's a decade old :(
Per the very short article, the assets are not crypto. It even says the crypto is missing, which is interesting.

"it has been gathering the funds to pay its debts by selling assets investments held by Alameda Research or FTX Ventures businesses ... almost all of the Bitcoin and other digital currencies believed to have been held by the exchange at the time of its collapse were missing"
Red pixels only against a true black OLED contact lens base
A new business with 1 employee isn’t going to be union. Federal and (in many) state minimum wage laws don’t even apply. Labour regulation kicks in as you get more and more employees.

Most activists are demanding higher wages from bigger employers.
>> businesses exist at the pleasure of the people and their elected representatives

As one noted politician famously said: "Corporations are people". The issue is that soo much of US jurisprudence has granted corporate entities all the rights of personhood. The only thing they cannot yet do is vote, but that too will come. They are certainly today allowed to vote with their wallets by financially supporting candidates.

Part of this issue is in turn tied to how so many powerful people in the US cloak themselves in corporate status. Taylor Swift exists are a person, but all her money flows through her corporation. Trump exists as a person, but all his property is held by his corporations. Some of this is a game to avoid taxation but it is also used to shield people from liabilities. So such powerful people take any attack on corporate personhood very personally.
At some level, I feel like the guy is an extremist with his opposition to OpenAI and AI in general. But it could be that he is on the right, that we are slowly creating a successor species, and that we are not reacting with enough force because of our cultural inertia.
Indeed I’m not ready to defend it, it is just an anecdote. I expected the experience of using crappy professional software to be so universal that I wouldn’t have to.
I moved to Amsterdam after working in the Bay Area for 10 years, I was able to negotiate 70% of my old salary with some stock options/bonus. Now I have the best of both worlds, working towards a permanent residency, paying much much less CoL and enjoying traveling Europe with my wife.
Also xtree, ztree etc.